Everyone is talking about Steven Slater, the flight attendant who cursed at a
passenger, grabbed two beers, and slid down the escape slide, which may be the
best resignation ever. In fact he’s so good at quitting, they’re thinking about
making him the next governor of Alaska.- Jimmy Kimmel

Christopher Crowley,
USAID director in Iraq, said the push for Iraqis to take over the U.S. victims
aid program is part of a general trend for all American assistance programs
here. The U.S. is "seeking a larger contribution from the (Iraqi) government to
these programs so they will become more sustainable as time goes on," he said.

A crowd of about
300 villagers yelled
"Death
to the United States" and blocked a main road in eastern Afghanistan on
Thursday as they swore that U.S. forces had killed three innocent villagers,
officials said

The National Council of La Raza honored Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2007 for his work on immigration. “We are
going to solve this [immigration] problem,” Graham said that night.
“We're not going to run people down. We're not going to scapegoat
people. We're going to tell the bigots to shut up, and we're going to
get this right.”

Now, Graham talks about immigrant women
giving birth in the United States as a “drop and leave” calculation — as
if describing animals.

White House press
secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he might have said things differently when
he lashed out at liberals he called the "professional left" and suggested some
of them should be drug tested.

The
Mexican Supreme Court ruled that all Mexican states must recognize same-sex
marriages registered in Mexico City. So men can now marry in Mexico, but they
still can’t honeymoon in Arizona. - Jimmy Kimmel

The
annual Perseid meteor shower is already putting on an excellent show, and the
celestial fireworks have yet to peak. The main event is tonight. Meanwhile, a
delightfully tight configuration of planets graces the evening sky.

Rarely has there been a better time to go out, look up and enjoy easy-to-watch
cosmic spectacles.

Across the Northern Hemisphere, the best time to watch the Perseid meteor shower
will be tonight through the pre-dawn hours local time Friday, regardless of
where you live. Weather permitting, patient sky watchers could see a shooting
star every minute or so. Photo/NASA